Urban environments

Lesson objectives: To be able to describe the characteristics of an urban area To be able to explain processes of urbanisation

Key termsurban Rural Urbanisation SuburbanisationCounterurbanisation Densely populated HIC LIC

What is URBAN?

• Find 3 definitions for urban • What resources could you use for this?

Growing urban populations

• For the first time ever, the majority of the world's population lives in a city.

• One hundred years ago, 2 out of every 10 people lived in an urban area.

• By 1990, less than 40% of the global population lived in a city, but as of 2010, more than half of all people live in an urban area.

http://www.who.int/

• http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/world/06/urbanisation/html/urbanisation.stm

Definition

• Urban • Urbanisation

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What is urbanisation?• Urbanisation is the

increase in the proportion of people who live in urban environments. Over time more and more people have moved into the larger communities, thus making them bigger still.

What do you notice about urban growth in the time

shown?

What are the characteristics?

What are the characteristics?

Back to back task

• With a partner sit with your back to each other

• One person must have a pen and paper and be facing away from the board

• The other must be facing the board and must describe what they can see

Draw this into your books and describe the trends (changes over time) that you can see.

Why has urbanisation taken place?

• Rural – urban migration (define this)

• Natural change – birth rates / death rates

Write the definitions and suggest some for rural/urban migration

• Push factors Factors that repel people from an area

• Pull factors Factors that attract people to an area

Counter urbanisation – why?

HICs – outward movement Suburbanisation

• Definition

• Diagram

• Explanation / example

Counter urbanisation

• Definition

• Diagram

• Explanation / example

Explain the reasons why urbanisation has taken place

• Suburbanisation • Counterurbanisation • Agglomeration